Clair Mellenthin – Attachment Centered Play Therapy: Repair Relational Trauma and Build Secure Attachment to Accelerate Family Treatment

Salepage : Clair Mellenthin – Attachment Centered Play Therapy: Repair Relational Trauma and Build Secure Attachment to Accelerate Family Treatment
Archive : Clair Mellenthin – Attachment Centered Play Therapy: Repair Relational Trauma and Build Secure Attachment to Accelerate Family Treatment Digital Download
Delivery : Digital Download Immediately

Clair Mellenthin is a member of the faculty.
6 hours and 16 minutes.
Audio and video formats are available.
Copyright: February 8, 2019
Description

When trauma, sorrow, and loss interrupt the family structure, a child may feel unsafe, unwanted, or unbelieved, resulting in relational harm and, in some cases, the breakdown of the attachment link. Children who lack the ability to communicate their feelings show their pain in maladaptive ways, such as anger, fury, resistance, oppositional behaviors, shutting down, hiding away, or numbing. Shame is an issue for the parent. Shame that they can’t “parent away” the hurt and the misbehavior—that their love isn’t “good enough”.

How can we, as therapists, assist families in mending and rebuilding the broken connection?

Watch this interactive recording to learn about Attachment Centered Play Treatment, an integrated therapeutic method that incorporates parents in the therapy process. The parent is essential in fostering secure and trustworthy environments in order to manage attachment wounds, trauma, sorrow, and loss.

This client-centered, developmentally appropriate strategy takes a holistic, systemic approach to addressing:

Vulnerability to recognize the pain and the obstacles
Problems with shame, vulnerability, sadness, and loss
Aggression, defiance, and other undesirable behaviors
Instead of reactivity or reactive reactions, use attachment-centered and proactive tactics.
Repairing and strengthening attachment relationships between parent and child
Parents can serve as both a resource and a coregulator for their children.
Relationship development with parents (this is a MUST in child and family therapy)

You will learn new and creative attachment-centered play therapy approaches such as hands-on experiential activities, guided imagery, sand tray treatments, and expressive arts—practicing sand tray therapy and strategies for measuring family connections, attachment bonds, and family dynamics.

We will investigate tough situations, pose questions, learn new assessment techniques, and investigate attachment types and how they manifest in therapy interactions with our clients.

Handouts

Attachment-Centered Play Therapy Manual (1.81 MB)

After purchasing, you will get access to 34 pages.

ASHA Credit Instructions – LIVE WEBCAST ONLY – 02/08/19 (38.5 KB)

Outline available after purchase

Using Play Therapy to Advance Family Treatment

4 important attachment ideas
Combining attachment theory and play therapy
Attachment patterns over the lifetime and their implications for the parent-child connection
Risks and constraints

Invite Parents to Participate

Strategies for enhancing the parent-child connection
Obstacles and triggers – child/parent/therapist
Shame and vulnerability – shame provides protection
Build rappaport and make place in the playroom for the parent.
Play-based treatment planning, sand tray, and genograms
Set expectations and establish limits.
Encourage people to participate.

Attachment-Centered Play Therapy Techniques

Attachment, wounds, and ruptures in relational trauma treatment
The cycle of the parent-child relationship
Catch me if you can – Generational attachment patterns
The butterfly has flown away.
two fingers
The collage of empowerment

Abuse Case Studies; Healing Attachment Wounds

Emotional and behavioral disorders that must be overcome

Defiance, ODD, irritability, aggression, and school refusal
Attachment trauma is at the foundation of unwanted conduct.
Play therapy techniques that are prescribed
Co-regulation and self-regulation
Guided imagery, quiet down jars

Case Studies of School Refusal and Extreme Defiance

Positive Attachment-Based Parenting Strategies

Increase parental participation to help reestablish trust and heal hurts.
Parenting styles: proactive vs. reactive
Obtain parental support

Proactive vs. Reactive Parenting: A Case Study

Faculty

Clair Mellenthin, RPT-S, LCSW Seminars and goods that are related: 4

Clair Mellenthin, LCSW, RPT-S, is the previous president of the Utah Association for Play Therapy and a Registered Play Therapist Supervisor. She has spent her whole career working with children, teenagers, and their families. Clair oversees Wasatch Family Therapy’s Child and Adolescent Services. She is a sought-after supervisor who mentors graduate students and interns in play therapy, as well as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Southern California’s MSW program. Clair is the author of My Many Colors of Me Workbook and Play Therapy: Engaging & Powerful Techniques for the Treatment of Childhood Disorders (PESI, 2018). (Self-Published, 2013). In addition to being an accomplished play therapist and professor, she routinely delivers professional play therapy and family therapy trainings and appears as an expert on children and family issues on local and national television and radio.

Disclosures for Speakers:
Wasatch Family Therapy’s clinical director, Clair Mellenthin, makes a good living. She wrote My Many Colors of Me Workbook, for which she retains intellectual property rights and earns income. PESI, Inc. provides Ms. Mellenthin with a speaking honorarium.
Clair Mellenthin is the president of the Utah Association for Play Therapy, a non-profit organization.

More from Categories : Health & Fitness